Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Travel and Tourism Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Travel and Tourism "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Travel and Tourism
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Travel and Tourism Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Travel and Tourism
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Travel and Tourism "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Travel and Tourism A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Travel and Tourism
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Travel and Tourism My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Travel and Tourism
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
